System, method and apparatus for organizing photographs stored on a mobile computing device

Abstract

An image organizing system for organizing and retrieving images from an image repository residing on a mobile device is disclosed. The image organizing system includes a mobile computing device including an image repository. The mobile computing device is adapted to produce a small-scale model from an image in the image repository including an indicia of the image from which the small-scale model was produced. In one embodiment the small-scale model is then transmitted from the mobile computing device to a cloud computing platform including recognition software that produces a list of tags describing the image, which are then transmitted back to the mobile computing device. The tags then form an organization system. Alternatively, the image recognition software can reside on the mobile computing device, so that no cloud computing platform is required.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 074,594, entitled “SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCENE RECOGNITION,” filed Nov. 7, 2013, assigned to Orbeus, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety, and which claims priority to U.S. Patent Application No. 61 / 724,628, entitled “SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCENE RECOGNITION,” filed Nov. 9, 2012, assigned to Orbeus, Inc. of Mountain View, California, which is hereby incorporated in its entirety. This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 074,615, filed November 7, 2013, assigned to Orbeus, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety, and which claims priority to U.S. Patent Application No. 61 / 837,210, entitled “SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION,” filed Jun. 20, 2013, assigned to Orbeus, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., which is h...

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Benefits of technology

[0018]Generally speaking, pursuant to the various embodiments, the present disclosure provides an image organizing system for organizing and retrieving images from an image repository residing on a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device, which can be, for example, a smartphone, a tablet computer, or a wearable computer, comprises a processor, a storage device, network interface, and a display. The mobile computing device can interface with a cloud computing platform, which can comprise one or more servers and a database.

Problems solved by technology

Despite the development in recent years, facial recognition and scene recognition have proved to present a challenging problem.

Present facial recognition technologies become less accurate when the facial image is taken at an angle more than 20° from the frontal view.

As an additional example, present facial recognition systems are ineffective to deal with facial expression variation.

The conventional approach to recognize a face or scene generally sacrifices matching accuracy for recognition processing efficiency or vice versa.

In today's digital world, the manual photo album creation process proves to be time consuming and tedious.

Given such a large quantity of photographs, it is difficult, if not impossible, for a user to locate a particular photograph among an unorganized collection of photographs.

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